Thinkin' more about blogging
I've been thinking more about blogging recently.
More to the point, I've been exploring note.com, the Japanese social media site, and it's sort of reinvigorating my desire to blog. I actually started an account and desire to one day blog there, but given my written Japanese is - to put it mildly - kind of shit, it's unlikely to happen anytime soon.
The problem, as is usually the case, is where to blog.
I really like bearblog, but I wish the WYSIWYG editor wasn't so barebones. I know, of course, that it understands markdown and so I could just write things up in Obsidian with all the keyboard shortcuts that I'm used to and such, but I sort of don't want to. I intend to one day pay for the lifetime sub to get stuff like image hosting (though it bites my soul a little to rely on anything external, but if I don't want to get in the weeds self-hosting a website...), which would help with some things, but still.
There's also a distinct lack of network effect stuff to deal with. Which is part of its charm, but also I... kinda sorta want that sort of stuff, if I'm being honest. Not the overwhelming rush of Tumblr or Bsky or Threads, but some degree of community, which doesn't really exist on here in the way that I would like.
Medium and Substack are too bloated and very corporatised (or, worse, techbro-y). CoHost, alas, is dead. There was some mutterings about Pillowfort and Dreamwidth, but one requires paid access and is still in beta and the other crashed when I tried to access it, which is weird.
Ho-hum. Maybe something will come along, or I'll figure out a way to write things here in a way that happens to satisfy me.